When in doubt, make a red painting.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

Get rid of your little darlings.

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you, ” and I was now living that mantra.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.